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Regional chemotherapy-induced cure for pancreatic head carcinoma
A Ekrem Unal1, Sancar Bayar, Ebru Serinsöz
1Department of Surgery, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. ekremunal@hotmail.com
Hepato-Gastroenterology
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
Pancreatic carcinoma has a devastating prognosis. The only hope for cure for many patients is still surgery while the disease is at the early stages. Chemotherapy (systemic/regional) or radiotherapy has been shown to be helpful in the palliation of the disease but not for cure. We reported a pancreatic head carcinoma, which was cured only by regional chemotherapy. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case in the literature.